“If we can,
when we have established individual discipline, arrange the
children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to
make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well,
and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it
is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and
tranquil adjustment of theirs -- then their remaining in their
places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson,
not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without
calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have
them assimilate a principle of collective order -- that is the
important thing.”
Maria Montessori |
